Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia: Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. was 3,794 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Saint Lucia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Saint Lucia is 3,794 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 0.5% on the previous year and down 1.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Saint Lucia peaked at 4,794 kg/ha in 1976 and was at its lowest, 3,723 kg/ha, in 1968.
That places Saint Lucia 66th out of 74 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Saint Lucia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 4,015 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 4,000 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1963 | 4,038 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1964 | 4,024 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1965 | 3,765 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 1966 | 3,750 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1967 | 3,791 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1968 | 3,723 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1969 | 3,814 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1970 | 3,999 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 1971 | 4,111 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1972 | 3,857 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 1973 | 3,927 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1974 | 4,276 kg/ha | +8.9% |
| 1975 | 4,750 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 1976 | 4,794 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1977 | 4,389 kg/ha | -8.4% |
| 1978 | 4,374 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1979 | 4,348 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1980 | 4,339 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1981 | 4,344 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1982 | 4,255 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1983 | 4,255 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 4,263 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1985 | 4,263 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 4,271 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1987 | 4,271 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 4,278 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1989 | 4,278 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 4,286 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1991 | 4,156 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 1992 | 4,142 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1993 | 4,129 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1994 | 4,121 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1995 | 4,101 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1996 | 4,087 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1997 | 4,073 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1998 | 4,060 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1999 | 3,909 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 2000 | 4,040 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2001 | 4,035 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2002 | 4,030 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2003 | 4,026 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2004 | 4,000 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2005 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 4,003 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2007 | 3,997 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2008 | 3,997 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2010 | 3,965 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2011 | 3,957 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2012 | 4,000 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2013 | 3,790 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 2014 | 3,849 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2015 | 3,888 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2016 | 3,840 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2017 | 3,830 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2018 | 3,823 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2019 | 3,810 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2020 | 3,799 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2021 | 3,798 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2022 | 3,786 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2023 | 3,776 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2024 | 3,794 kg/ha | +0.5% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,880 kg/ha | 3,723 kg/ha | 4,038 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,282 kg/ha | 3,857 kg/ha | 4,794 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,282 kg/ha | 4,255 kg/ha | 4,344 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,106 kg/ha | 3,909 kg/ha | 4,286 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,013 kg/ha | 3,997 kg/ha | 4,040 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,875 kg/ha | 3,790 kg/ha | 4,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,791 kg/ha | 3,776 kg/ha | 3,799 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Saint Lucia?
- Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Saint Lucia was 3,794 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. recorded in Saint Lucia?
- The highest recorded value was 4,794 kg/ha in 1976.
- What is the lowest edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. recorded in Saint Lucia?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,723 kg/ha in 1968.
- How does Saint Lucia rank for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c.?
- Saint Lucia ranks 66th out of 74 countries with data for 2024.
- Is edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. rising or falling in Saint Lucia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 1.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Saint Lucia data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c., fresh — Yield. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.